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Back to SearchDavid de Jong, "Nazi Billionaires: The Dark History of Germany's Wealthiest Dynasties" (Mariner Books, 2022)
Episode 130
In Nazi Billionnaires: The Dark History of Germany's Wealthiest Dynasties (Mariner Books, 2022), journalist David de Jong presents a groundbreaking i…
1 year, 5 months ago
Victoria Khiterer, "Bitter War of Memory: The Babyn Yar Massacre, Aftermath, and Commemoration" (Purdue UP, 2025)
Episode 640
Bitter War of Memory: The Babyn Yar Massacre, Aftermath, and Commemoration (Purdue UP, 2025) discusses the Holocaust in Kyiv and the efforts to memor…
1 year, 5 months ago
Becky Aikman, "Spitfires: The American Women Who Flew in the Face of Danger during World War II" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
Episode 117
They were crop dusters and debutantes, college girls and performers in flying circuses-all of them trained as pilots. Because they were women, they w…
1 year, 5 months ago
Mark Fallon, "Unjustifiable Means: The Inside Story of How the CIA, Pentagon, and US Government Conspired to Torture" (Regan Arts, 2017)
Episode 115
From busting drug lords to leading the Pentagon task force charged with bringing the 9/11 terrorists to justice, Mark Fallon has spent his career on …
1 year, 5 months ago
Chris Webb and Artur Hojan, "The Chelmno Death Camp: History, Biographies, Remembrance" (Ibidem Press, 2019)
Episode 220
The Chelmno Death Camp: History, Biographies, Remembrance (Ibidem Press, 2019) is a comprehensive account of the Chelmno death camp. Chelmno was not …
1 year, 5 months ago
David Resnick, "Empowered or Abused: The Bible's Plan to Stop Battlefield Rape and Reduce Sexual Abuse" (BfoT, 2025)
Episode 142
What to do when a victorious soldier lusts for the beautiful woman he’s just taken captive in an overseas war. In fact, her body already belongs to h…
1 year, 5 months ago
Cynthia Enloe, "Twelve Feminist Lessons of War" (U California Press, 2023)
Episode 208
Women's wars are not men's wars. This is the first lesson of Cynthias Enloe’s Twelve Feminist Lessons of War (U California Press, 2023): the lack of …
1 year, 5 months ago
Michael David-Fox, "Crucibles of Power: Smolensk Under Stalinist and Nazi Rule" (Harvard UP, 2025)
Episode 303
Michael David Fox's Crucibles of Power: Smolensk under Stalinist and Nazi Rule (Harvard UP, 2025) provides a local, close-up look at the everyday wor…
1 year, 5 months ago
Joanna Siekiera, "Evolution on Demand: The Changing Roles of the U.S. Marine Corps in 21st Century Conflicts and Beyond" (Marine Corps UP, 2025)
Episode 269
The future battlespace promises to be complex, unpredictable, and multifaceted. To answer its challenges, military professionals must think deeply an…
1 year, 5 months ago
Martin Thomas, "The End of Empires and a World Remade: A Global History of Decolonization" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Episode 126
Empires, until recently, were everywhere. They shaped borders, stirred conflicts, and set the terms of international politics. With the collapse of e…
1 year, 6 months ago